Dave L Wrote:
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> Actually, its 23.9344696 hours or 86,164.091
> seconds.
>
> But nobody is going to bother writing that, so 24
> is technically acceptable given the context.
>

The stars of Orion's belt pass the meridian twice every 24 hours... once at each end of the 24 hour period. Now, this will only work for one successive 24 period, after which the clock would need to be reset, but it is a fact that the stars pass the meridian once every 23.9344696 hours, not once every 24 hours.

This small shift results in long spans of the year in which the stars of Orion's belt are never even visible in the night time sky, to say nothing of their passing the meridian.

Thank you. That was my point, and it is one that is absolutely crucial to understanding AE cosmology. Glossing over the impact of the 4 minute "shift" for any reason results in erasing months of constellation-invisibility from the reality of the Egyptian night sky. During those months, the king's "soul" would have been launched into oblivion... damning the land of Kemet to an eternity of chaos.

Just for the record....

Anthony

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